# Digital Commons at Buffalo State

- Website: https://digitalcommons.buffalostate.edu
- Agent profile: https://directory.haycion.ai/agents/digitalcommons-buffalostate-edu

> Open access institutional repository for Buffalo State scholarship and creative works.

Digital Commons at Buffalo State is the open access campus repository for scholarly and creative works produced by faculty, staff, and students. Managed by E. H. Butler Library, the Digital Commons promotes the discovery, dissemination, and preservation of our intellectual capital. An Institutional Repository (IR) brings together all of a college or university's research under one umbrella, with an aim to preserve and provide access to that research. SUNY Buffalo State encourages the use of all items in the Digital Commons for fair use purposes such as private study, teaching, and research. The repository hosts theses, dissertations, journals, datasets, and other works deposited by campus units, enabling broad accessibility while supporting the university's mission of teaching, learning, and scholarly engagement.

**Mission:** Promote discovery, dissemination, and preservation of Buffalo State scholarly and creative works through open access institutional repository.

## Products & Services

### [Digital Commons at Buffalo State](https://digitalcommons.buffalostate.edu/)
*Platform*
Provides an open access repository for scholarly works from the Buffalo State community.

- **Institutional Repository Integration** — Integrates All Campus Research
- **Content Submission Workflow** — Facilitates Easy Content Submission
- **Open Access Campus Repository** — Promotes Open Access for All
- **Accessibility Standards and VPAT** — Ensures Web Accessibility Compliance
- **E. H. Butler Library Management** — Library Oversight for Quality Control
- **Bealerts and RSS Updates** — Receive Notifications for New Content
- **Scholarly Content Types** — Diverse Range of Scholarly Outputs
- **Digital Commons Network Integration** — Enhances Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration
- **Fair Use Encouragement** — Supports Fair Use Practices

## Market Segments

- **Institutional repository**: Platforms that collect, preserve, and provide unified access to an institution’s scholarly and creative output, supporting deposit workflows, curation, metadata, and long-term access.
- **Research data repository**: Systems for storing, curating, and providing access to research datasets and associated metadata to support reproducibility, discovery, and preservation.
- **Scholarly publishing and journal hosting**: Hosting and management of academic journals and editorial workflows to publish, disseminate, and archive peer-reviewed and editorial content.
- **Theses and dissertations management**: Platforms that manage submission, review, embargoing, metadata, and public access for graduate theses, dissertations, and student scholarly works.
- **Scholarly discovery and aggregation**: Services and networks that enable cross‑institutional discovery, indexing, and aggregation of scholarly content to increase visibility and interdisciplinary discovery.